California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress Mathematics Grade 3

1.Which digit is in the hundreds place of the citrus packing total 3,582?

2.Which tide-pool count is greater, 648 hermit crabs in the morning or 684 hermit crabs in the afternoon?

3.Before writing the morning tally, a cable-car clerk rounds 376 tokens to the nearest ten, and what number is that?

4.Workers finished staking 258 vines in the east vineyard block and 175 vines in the west block, so how many vines did they stake?

5.How many seahorses go in each tank if keepers at the Monterey aquarium split 36 seahorses evenly among 4 tanks?

6.What fraction of a farmers-market peach tart was sold if 4 of its 6 equal slices were bought?

7.Volunteers rolled 7 library carts into the reading room, and each cart was loaded with 8 picture books, so how many picture books arrived?

8.A redwood trail sign measures 8 feet in length and 3 feet in width, so what is its perimeter in feet?

9.To the nearest hundred, what number should citrus packers write for a count of 642 navel oranges?

10.A tide pool held 503 anemones until a wave carried 278 of them into a lower pool, so how many anemones are still in the first pool?

11.A conductor's shoulder bag holds 5 sealed rolls of cable-car tokens, and every roll contains 30 tokens, so how many tokens is the conductor carrying?

12.Which is greater, 3/8 of a vineyard harvest flat or 6/8 of that same flat?

13.What time is kelp-tank feeding at the Monterey aquarium when the hour hand sits halfway between 2 and 3 and the minute hand is on the 6?

14.How many more peppers than onions are on the farmers-market bar graph if the pepper bar shows 9 and the onion bar shows 4?

15.In the library repair total 4,706, what value does the digit 7 have?

16.A hiker follows a 27-foot redwood boardwalk and then a 15-foot plank section, so how many feet is that walk?

17.Fifty-six loose oranges are waiting in a citrus bin, and the packer puts 7 in each bag until none are left, so how many bags get filled?

18.A rectangular counting mat by the tide pool is 8 feet long and 5 feet wide, so what is its area in square feet?

19.How many minutes does a cable car take to go from Powell at 9:20 to Hyde at 9:48?

20.Which expression is the expanded form of the 2,049 vines tagged on the vineyard map?

21.How many of 12 harbor seals at the Monterey aquarium are pups if 1/3 of the resting group are pups?

22.Which list orders the farmers-market peach sales 318, 381, and 308 from least to greatest?

23.How many right angles does the rectangular top of a library book cart have?

24.Rangers round 245 steps on a redwood trail sign to the nearest ten, and what number should they use?

25.Trucks left the citrus shed with 486 of the 714 lime bins that were stored there, so how many lime bins are still inside?

26.Children sorting the morning tide pool set 45 ochre sea stars into piles of 5, so how many piles sit on the table?

27.Which cable-car booth sold more tokens, booth A with 507 or booth B with 570?

28.Along one vineyard lane, a crew has set 6 posts and clipped 9 training wires to each post, so how many wires were clipped?

29.Before the Monterey aquarium touch pool opens, a keeper lines up 4 buckets that each contain 7 liters of seawater, so how many liters are ready?

30.How many tomato baskets does a farmers-market picture graph show when 6 tomato icons each stand for 2 baskets?

31.Shelvers cleared 385 books off library carts that had been holding 620 returns, so how many books are still waiting on the carts?

32.What fraction of a redwood trail sign panel shows a tree if the panel is split into 4 equal parts and 1 part has the tree?

33.Crews had stacked 486 orange crates on the citrus dock when a truck arrived with 357 more, so how many crates were there then?

34.What hundred is closest to the 851 shore crabs counted in the morning tide pools?

35.Which digit is in the thousands place of the 6,130 cable-car tokens stored in the safe?

36.Shade cloth over the young vines forms a 9-meter by 3-meter rectangle, and what is that cloth's area in square meters?

37.How many minutes long is the Monterey aquarium otter talk that starts at 1:15 and ends at 1:52?

38.Which fraction of a farmers-market berry pie is greater, 2/8 left of one pie or 5/8 left of another pie cut the same way?

39.Eight unopened packs of shelf labels sit on the library desk, and each pack contains 10 labels, so how many labels are on the desk?

40.Hikers have already walked 275 feet of the 900 feet a redwood trail sign gives to the creek, so how many feet are left?

41.How many lemons are still green if 1/4 of the 20 lemons in a citrus crate have not ripened?

42.How do the tide-pool bar graph bars compare when both turban snails and limpets are shown as 7?

43.The grip crew of 4 people divides 32 spare cable-car tokens so that everyone gets the same number, so how many tokens does one person get?

44.After rounding 163 vineyard grape clusters to the nearest ten, which number goes on the row sheet?

45.How many right angles are in the rectangular window of the kelp forest exhibit at the Monterey aquarium?

46.The farmers-market honey seller filled 469 jars in the morning and 248 jars after lunch, so how many jars were filled that day?

47.What time does the library story-time clock show when the minute hand points at the 2 and the hour hand is just after 4?

48.Which redwood trail counter recorded more visitors, the one showing 1,250 or the one showing 1,205?

49.How many navel cartons appear in the citrus picture graph when 4 circles are drawn and each circle means 10 cartons?

50.How many purple urchins are on a tide-pool sheet that has 8 rows with 7 urchins in every row?

51.By lunch the cable-car booth had sold 246 of the 800 tickets it started with, so how many tickets were still in the drawer?

52.What fraction of a vineyard picking tray is filled if grapes cover 2 of its 5 equal sections?

53.On the Monterey aquarium visitor board showing 8,416, what is the value of the digit 4?

54.A farmers-market baker counts 63 corn muffins and packs them 9 to a box until the table is clear, so how many boxes are filled?

55.Children sit on a library rug that is a 10-foot by 4-foot rectangle, and what is the rug's area in square feet?

56.How many markers did rangers place when each of 4 redwood switchbacks received 9 trail markers?

57.Which list puts the citrus dock weights 742 pounds, 724 pounds, and 704 pounds in order from greatest to least?

58.How many minutes did a tide-pool walk last if it began at 8:05 and ended at 8:40?

59.What number does a cable-car grip write after rounding 529 turnbacks to the nearest hundred?

60.A vineyard crew pulled 476 ties out of a bag that held 831, so how many ties were left in the bag?

61.How many fish do the Monterey aquarium bar graph bars show altogether when sardines are at 6 and anchovies are at 9?

62.What fraction of a farmers-market crumb cake was bought if customers took 5 of its 8 equal pieces?

63.Which library shelf is more full, the shelf that is 4/6 novels or the shelf that is 1/6 novels?

64.How many feet farther is the canyon overlook than the creek spur when a redwood sign lists 62 feet and 28 feet?

65.For a school order, a citrus worker sets out 8 mesh bags and drops 6 mandarins into each one, so how many mandarins are used?

66.Which digit is in the tens place of the tide-pool shell tally 5,073?

67.How many of 18 cable-car souvenir tokens show a bridge if 1/3 of the tokens are painted that way?

68.On the hillside, 6 vineyard rows are fully planted with 40 vines in every row, so how many vines stand in that block?

69.The tide lab took back 139 hermit crabs from the 412 that had been on loan to the Monterey aquarium, so how many crabs remained there?

70.What number belongs on the farmers-market price card when 385 squash are rounded to the nearest ten?

71.A library volunteer divides a stack of 72 magazines into 8 piles of the same size, so how many magazines end up in one pile?

72.How many morning hikers are on the ranger picture graph if 7 tree icons are drawn and each icon stands for 5 hikers?

73.What time is on the citrus packing clock when the minute hand is on the 9 and the hour hand is just before 11?

74.Which tide-pool sample is smaller, a tray that is 3/4 full of shells or a tray that is 2/4 full of shells?

75.Printers sized a cable-car poster as an 8-inch by 6-inch rectangle, and what is the poster's area in square inches?

76.How many liters stay in a vineyard watering cart that held 15 liters after a worker pours out 8 liters?

77.Nine school groups pass the Monterey aquarium desk before noon, and the guide gives 10 stickers to each group, so how many stickers leave the desk?

78.Shoppers bought 198 jam jars from the farmers-market stall that opened with 403 jars, so how many jars were unsold?

79.A librarian rounding 214 chapter books on a cart to the nearest ten would record which number?

80.What kind of angle is formed where two sides meet at a corner of a rectangular redwood trail sign?

81.Which expression shows the expanded form of the citrus tally 3,608 lemons?

82.Students who finished the tide-pool count pour 24 lined shore crabs into 3 buckets with the same number in each, so how many crabs does one bucket hold?

83.Which day had the least cable-car token sales among Monday's 459, Tuesday's 495, and Wednesday's 449?

84.If you walk all the way around a vineyard gate 7 feet wide and 5 feet tall, how many feet do you walk?

85.What fraction of a Monterey aquarium tank diagram shows kelp if kelp fills 5 of the diagram's 6 equal bands?

86.At sunrise the farmers-market stall sets out 7 egg cartons, and every carton contains 6 eggs, so how many eggs are on the table?

87.How many minutes did library reshelving take from 3:25 until it stopped at 3:59?

88.When a ranger rounds 764 names in the redwood trail register to the nearest hundred, what number is that?

89.Monday's citrus line filled 537 blood-orange crates and Tuesday's line filled 286, so how many crates were filled across both days?

90.Posted beside the tide pools, a 5-foot by 4-foot chart is rectangular, so what is the chart's area in square feet?

91.How many times does the cable-car bell ring if it is rung 4 times at each of 8 stops?

92.Which vineyard block has more vines, block D with 2,310 vines or block E with 2,301 vines?

93.Glass in the Monterey aquarium kelp forest window forms a 7-foot by 6-foot rectangle, and what is the area of that glass in square feet?

94.How many of 16 farmers-market apples are honeycrisp if 1/2 of the apples are that variety?

95.The librarian's map frame is 9 inches long and 4 inches wide, so what distance does the frame border cover in inches?

96.Forty hikers meet at the redwood trailhead sign, and the ranger forms teams of 5, so how many teams start up the path?

97.Shipping clerks round 918 pomelos to the nearest hundred, so which number do they print on the citrus note?

98.Counters moved 284 mussels off a tide-pool rock that had 651 mussels, so how many mussels were still attached to the rock?

99.How many minutes do cable-car riders wait if they reach the barn stop at 2:48 and the car leaves at 3:05?

100.Nine finished bundles of vine canes lie by the vineyard road, and each bundle contains 8 canes, so how many canes were bundled?

101.How many more bat rays than leopard sharks does the Monterey aquarium bar graph show when rays are at 8 and sharks are at 3?

102.Which piece of a farmers-market cheese wheel is greater, a 1/5 wedge or a 4/5 order of the same wheel?

103.On a library cart label reading 7,940, what digit sits in the hundreds place?

104.How many minutes did hikers take to go from a redwood trail sign at 10:35 to the bridge at 11:10?

105.A citrus packer lines 42 satsumas in neat rows with 6 fruits in a row, so how many rows appear on the table?

106.Researchers fill 3 sample pails from one tide pool, putting 6 liters in each pail, so how many liters did they carry away?

107.Adding every edge of the 6-foot by 2-foot cable-car booth sign gives which perimeter in feet?

108.Outlined on the vineyard map, one rectangular block has how many right angles?